Identification of the gene and the protein of RNA polymerase II subunit 9 (Rpb9) from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Gene

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-16

  Sakurai, Hitomi ^a,b   Kimura, Makoto ^a   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Pol II; RNA polymerase II; Subunit composition

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; MELANOGASTER; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032500771     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00449-1     Document Type: Article

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